Riyadh: About 38 per cent of Saudis using Facebook are women, according to a researcher working in the media field. Fawzia Al Shadadi said there are 231,000 Saudis using the social networking website as of December 2009. “More women are turning to social networking. There is a growing trend among Saudi young women to have [...]
Could the kingdom’s religious leaders be about to make a sharp U-turn? For decades Saudi Arabia’s religious police have enforced a rigid separation of the sexes in public places. Plain-clothes agents of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, as the religious police are known, patrol streets, parks and shopping centres, [...]
Justice Minister Muhammad Al-Eisa said on Thursday the Kingdom’s efforts to revamp the judicial system were well under way and that women would eventually be allowed to practice as lawyers representing women clients. Speaking at a meeting of heads of notaries in Riyadh, the minister said the judicial reforms will not only modernize the system [...]
Saudi painter Ibrahim Alfassam will be holding an exhibit of his painting at the King Faisal bin Fahad center for Arts. The exhibit with feature 180 original oil and abstract painting by Ibrahim Alfassam. This event is hosting by the ministry of culture to support and spread awareness for the arts. The event is from [...]
e to buy handguns and other personal firearms openly for the first time after the Ministry of Interior said Saturday it will license privately owned gun shops.
Anyone over 25 with a clean criminal record and a bank guarantee of SR500,000 can apply to open a gun store, the ministry said. An official said the move is aimed in part at reining in the widespread illegal ownership of handguns and assault weapons.
I came across this really great website, resourceful with pictures of Saudi culture in the rural areas. With pictures of experiences like Bedu dinner and Bedu farm. There is also a wealth of old and modern architecture of Saudi. The site is called GalenFrySinger, a great website will allot of excellent references and useful pictures. I also came across another website [...]
1 March 2009 Riyadh: Thirty-five prominent Saudi figures including scholars, university professors, judges, imams, researchers and government officials have warned the minister of culture and information against the prominence being given to women in the media. They described the projection of women in the media as a “phenomenon exceeding proper bounds of Sharia”. In a [...]
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